Infoplus Technologies UK Limited
Progress DBA
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Progress DBA
FTE
Birmingham (Hybrid)
Description:
We are looking for an experienced Progress OpenEdge DBA to support a business-critical application built on Progress/OpenEdge. The resource will be responsible for database administration, production support, failure resolution, performance improvement, backup and recovery, and overall database stability.
Key Responsibilities:
- Administer and support Progress OpenEdge databases across development, test, and production environments.
- Monitor database health, availability, capacity, and performance.
- Troubleshoot and resolve database failures, outages, locking issues, crashes, and connectivity problems.
- Perform database performance tuning, including query, index, transaction, memory, and resource optimization.
- Manage backups, restores, disaster recovery, and data replication activities.
- Analyze database logs, alerts, and system metrics to identify root causes.
- Support Progress/OpenEdge upgrades, patching, migrations, and environment refreshes.
- Collaborate with application, infrastructure, and development teams to resolve production issues.
- Participate in incident management, root-cause analysis, and preventive action planning.
- Automate routine DBA activities using scripting and maintain operational runbooks.
- Ensure database security, access controls, maintenance, and compliance requirements are followed.
- Provide on-call and production support as required.
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Required Skills and Experience:
- Strong experience as a Progress OpenEdge DBA in production environments.
- Hands-on expertise in Progress database architecture, configuration, administration, and troubleshooting.
- Proven experience handling database failures and high-priority production incidents.
- Strong knowledge of Progress database performance tuning and optimization.
- Experience with database locks, transactions, indexes, storage, memory, and resource utilization.
- Expertise in backup, restore, disaster recovery, and replication processes.
- Good understanding of Progress ABL and SQL for application and query analysis.
- Experience working on Linux and/or Windows environments.
- Knowledge of monitoring tools and scripting using Bash, PowerShell, Python, or similar.
- Strong analytical, communication, documentation, and problem-solving skills.
- Experience working in an incident, change, and problem management environment.
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Preferred:
- Experience supporting large-scale or business-critical Progress/OpenEdge applications.
- Knowledge of OpenEdge versions, upgrades, and high-availability solutions.
- Experience with enterprise monitoring, ITIL processes, and 24x7 production support.
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